Anybody Know ANYTHING About These Acoustic Research Monitor Speakers?

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Scored a quad of what must be small stage monitors. Built like little tanks, both as robust and shaped about the same, they have black composite plastic cabinets, a single 5 inch woofer that fires up at about a 45 degree angle from horizontal and a single horn that fires straight out (horizontal- weird) and a recessed banana plug on the back. They all play fine, driven by a Samson 120 Servo amp (60 watts per channel), good volume, clarity, and frequency response. No ID tag, only thing is says anywhere on them is "Acoustic Research" and "Holographic Imaging" molded into a panel on the rear.

A google search revealed zero info on these, and no pics. Apparently, AR made mostly high-end home audio equipment, I am finding NO info on any pro audio equipment from them.

I am quite excited about them- my too-big guitar group has a show coming up, and I am hoping these will be good to supplement my bigger (12" driver) monitors. Gonna set them up this week for rehersal to try them out.

Oh, and I only paid FIVE BUX for all four, and they EACH had a banana plug on them!
 
:cool:Yo STVRBetc.:


Recheck Google and look for "Acoustic Research 5" Wireless"


:eek: Looks like a Shrunken R2-D2 Type .....

Was a Radio Shack product. I don't think you'll want to use it for a Carnegie Hall Concert. It ran 99.99 probably made in Burma.


Green Hornet:p:D
 
Lots of high end guy liked that teladyne acoustic research stuff...maybe if you use teledyne as a key word you might come up with something.
 
Nope, both wrong. Thanks, though.

These are NOT wireless, and look nothing like the AR wireless.

The AR Teledyne all appear to be home audio, tower-type speakers.

Anyone else?

Oh, I put a DC ohmmeter to them- 3.8 DC ohms, which means about 4 ohms impedence.
 
:D:eek:Yo Steve

Last thing I can recollect about those speakers might have been the 1966 Irving Kloppman inverse ungrouped blastmonic monitors. They are not made except near Borculo, Mich.

And, if I've had you chuckle, I'm happy.

Green Hornet:p;):D
 
Well, you did get a smile. Good enough? Hey, it's late.
 
Those little AR's should work fine as On-Stage monitors, so long as your 12"s don't overshadow them too much. (They are stiff and stout.)

The oiled wood home audio AR's of the 1970's were built for living room Hi-Fi's (soft and responsive).

Rich Smith
 
Tried 'em out tonight- see my new thread, ROAD TEST- Acoustic Research Monitor Speakers
 
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